Systems Administrator Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT contracts across the UK compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Systems Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

System Administrator
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Carlisle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Cumbria Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorset Driffield Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hayes Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Ipswich Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincolnshire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	174	162
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching contract IT job ads	702	1012
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.936 %	1.024 %
As % of the category below	1.040 %	1.117 %
Daily rates quoted	212	300
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£352
Average daily rate	£349	£369
% change on same period last year	-5.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£373	£386
UK excluding London average daily rate	£362	£343
% change on same period last year	+5.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	43	132
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.36	£27.95
Average hourly rate	£25.58	£29.18
% change on same period last year	-12.35 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.79	£30.41
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.21	£29.14
% change on same period last year	-10.06 %
Job Titles UK
Matching contract IT job ads	67526	90610
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	90.01 %	91.67 %
Daily rates quoted	22121	26824
Average minimum daily rate	£378	£390
Average daily rate	£404	£415
% change on same period last year	-2.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£430	£440
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	5680	7267
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.08	£24.52
Average hourly rate	£23.72	£26.04
% change on same period last year	-8.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.36	£27.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Systems Administrator
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Systems Administrator within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Systems Administrator within the UK.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Administrator within the UK over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Systems Administrator within the UK.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Administrator within the UK over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Top 30 Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Administrator within the UK over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
England	-4	657	£349	-6.27 %
London	+20	353	£338	-13.16 %
City of London	+10	107	£309	-27.66 %
South East	-14	90	£366	-1.50 %
North West	+10	76	£396	+29.53 %
East of England	-25	45	£345	+4.38 %
South West	-7	32	£305	-12.75 %
Cheshire	+7	30	£445	+58.92 %
Scotland	-8	29	£311	+12.71 %
Yorkshire	-5	22	-	-
Hampshire	+25	22	£400	-6.97 %
Surrey	-7	20	£371	+3.49 %
Manchester	-9	19	£350	+34.61 %
Oxfordshire	+8	16	£278	-
Hertfordshire	-13	16	£286	-7.88 %
Cambridgeshire	-3	13	£246	-18.05 %
Edinburgh	-7	12	-	-
Cambridge	+10	11	£246	-18.05 %
East Midlands	-6	11	£292	-7.03 %
West Midlands	-4	11	-	-
West Yorkshire	-8	10	-	-
Berkshire	-2	10	£363	-0.19 %
Cumbria	+4	9	£337	-
Knutsford	-	9	£425	-
Northern Ireland	-	9	£325	-
Midlands	+8	8	£440	-
North East	+17	8	£350	-30.00 %
County Antrim	-	8	£325	-
Belfast	-	8	£325	-
Devon	-	8	£316	-

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Systems Administrator in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Systems Administrator in their job title.

1 717 (51.10 %) UNIX 2 524 (37.35 %) Solaris 3 480 (34.21 %) Linux 4 359 (25.59 %) Windows 5 284 (20.24 %) Finance 6 255 (18.18 %) Red Hat 7 232 (16.54 %) AIX 8 219 (15.61 %) VERITAS 9 209 (14.90 %) Oracle 10 192 (13.68 %) Sun 11 186 (13.26 %) Active Directory 12 184 (13.11 %) Perl 13 177 (12.62 %) TCP/IP 14 174 (12.40 %) SAN 15 163 (11.62 %) HPUX

16 158 (11.26 %) Shell Script 17 156 (11.12 %) Apache 18 136 (9.694 %) HP 19 129 (9.195 %) SQL 20 125 (8.909 %) Microsoft 21 110 (7.840 %) Windows Server 2003 22 102 (7.270 %) VMware 22 102 (7.270 %) MySQL 23 100 (7.128 %) DNS 24 98 (6.985 %) Banking 25 94 (6.700 %) IBM 26 92 (6.557 %) NetBackup 27 88 (6.272 %) Windows 2000 27 88 (6.272 %) Exchange Server 2003 28 87 (6.201 %) Firewall

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Systems Administrator in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Systems Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 69 (4.918 %) WebSphere 2 57 (4.063 %) Middleware 3 42 (2.994 %) J2EE 4 20 (1.426 %) XML 5 19 (1.354 %) HTML 6 17 (1.212 %) .NET 7 11 (0.784 %) WebServices 8 10 (0.713 %) LAMP 8 10 (0.713 %) JSP 9 9 (0.641 %) ASP.NET 10 6 (0.428 %) DCOM 10 6 (0.428 %) ASP 10 6 (0.428 %) Spring 11 5 (0.356 %) X-Windows 11 5 (0.356 %) Struts 11 5 (0.356 %) ODBC 11 5 (0.356 %) CORBA 11 5 (0.356 %) ActiveX 12 4 (0.285 %) Servlets 13 3 (0.214 %) WSH	Application Platforms 1 156 (11.12 %) Apache 2 88 (6.272 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 85 (6.058 %) Tomcat 4 79 (5.631 %) MS Exchange 5 70 (4.989 %) IIS 6 41 (2.922 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 37 (2.637 %) JBoss 8 33 (2.352 %) WebLogic 9 22 (1.568 %) SharePoint 10 18 (1.283 %) Lotus Notes 11 14 (0.998 %) WebSphere Application Server 11 14 (0.998 %) WebSphere MQ 12 13 (0.927 %) CMS 13 11 (0.784 %) Resin 14 9 (0.641 %) Exchange Server 5.5 15 7 (0.499 %) Exchange Server 2007 16 6 (0.428 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 16 6 (0.428 %) MQSeries 17 5 (0.356 %) SAS 17 5 (0.356 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 49 (3.493 %) MS Excel 2 39 (2.780 %) MS Office 3 5 (0.356 %) MS PowerPoint 3 5 (0.356 %) MS Visio 4 2 (0.143 %) Maya 4 2 (0.143 %) 3ds Max 4 2 (0.143 %) Spreadsheet 5 1 (0.071 %) Photoshop 5 1 (0.071 %) MS Project 5 1 (0.071 %) MATLAB 5 1 (0.071 %) S-PLUS	Business Applications 1 9 (0.641 %) WebTrends 2 7 (0.499 %) Oracle Financials 2 7 (0.499 %) Oracle 11i 2 7 (0.499 %) Academy Housing 3 6 (0.428 %) Oracle Applications 4 4 (0.285 %) arcHouse 4 4 (0.285 %) Cognos Planning 5 3 (0.214 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 5 3 (0.214 %) Line 500 5 3 (0.214 %) Oracle EBS 5 3 (0.214 %) Hyperion Enterprise 5 3 (0.214 %) Summit 5 3 (0.214 %) Global One 6 2 (0.143 %) MAXIMO 7 1 (0.071 %) SAP FI/CO 7 1 (0.071 %) SAP R/3 7 1 (0.071 %) SAP FI 7 1 (0.071 %) SAP CO 7 1 (0.071 %) HFM 7 1 (0.071 %) Applix TM1
Communications & Networking 1 177 (12.62 %) TCP/IP 2 174 (12.40 %) SAN 3 100 (7.128 %) DNS 4 87 (6.201 %) Firewall 5 57 (4.063 %) WAN 6 54 (3.849 %) LAN 7 45 (3.207 %) Internet 8 43 (3.065 %) LDAP 9 30 (2.138 %) DHCP 9 30 (2.138 %) SNA 10 18 (1.283 %) FTP 11 14 (0.998 %) SNMP 11 14 (0.998 %) Network Security 12 13 (0.927 %) VPN 13 12 (0.855 %) SMTP 14 11 (0.784 %) VoIP 15 10 (0.713 %) SMS 16 9 (0.641 %) Ethernet 16 9 (0.641 %) HTTP 16 9 (0.641 %) MPLS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 102 (7.270 %) MySQL 2 84 (5.987 %) SQL Server 3 33 (2.352 %) Oracle 10g 4 20 (1.426 %) RDBMS 4 20 (1.426 %) SQL Server 2000 5 14 (0.998 %) SQL Server 2005 5 14 (0.998 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 14 (0.998 %) Oracle 9i 6 12 (0.855 %) BusinessObjects 7 8 (0.570 %) MS Access 7 8 (0.570 %) Oracle Reports 7 8 (0.570 %) TOAD 8 6 (0.428 %) DB2 8 6 (0.428 %) Crystal Reports 8 6 (0.428 %) SQL Server 7 8 6 (0.428 %) PostgreSQL 9 5 (0.356 %) Hyperion Essbase 9 5 (0.356 %) SQL Navigator 10 4 (0.285 %) Datawarehouse 11 3 (0.214 %) DTS
Development Applications 1 12 (0.855 %) Subversion 2 5 (0.356 %) Visual Studio 3 4 (0.285 %) Flash 3 4 (0.285 %) ClearCase 3 4 (0.285 %) Ant 4 3 (0.214 %) Eclipse 5 2 (0.143 %) Oracle Forms 5 2 (0.143 %) Bugzilla 6 1 (0.071 %) TeamTrack 6 1 (0.071 %) CruiseControl 6 1 (0.071 %) Dreamweaver 6 1 (0.071 %) FrontPage	General 1 284 (20.24 %) Finance 2 98 (6.985 %) Banking 3 44 (3.136 %) Investment Banking 4 33 (2.352 %) Telecoms 5 29 (2.067 %) Government 6 17 (1.212 %) Legal 7 12 (0.855 %) Back Office 8 11 (0.784 %) Retail 9 10 (0.713 %) Financial Institution 9 10 (0.713 %) Health 10 9 (0.641 %) Publishing 11 8 (0.570 %) General Ledger 11 8 (0.570 %) Front Office 12 7 (0.499 %) Law 12 7 (0.499 %) Games 13 6 (0.428 %) Manufacturing 13 6 (0.428 %) Pharmaceutical 14 5 (0.356 %) Military 15 4 (0.285 %) Auditing 15 4 (0.285 %) Automotive
Miscellaneous 1 61 (4.348 %) Clustering 2 60 (4.277 %) HACMP 3 14 (0.998 %) NHS 4 9 (0.641 %) Blackberry 4 9 (0.641 %) Blog 5 8 (0.570 %) Firmware 6 7 (0.499 %) Management Information System 6 7 (0.499 %) Handset 6 7 (0.499 %) Computer Science 7 6 (0.428 %) Replication 7 6 (0.428 %) CLARiiON 7 6 (0.428 %) Client/Server 8 5 (0.356 %) Mainframe 9 4 (0.285 %) AS400 9 4 (0.285 %) Statistics 9 4 (0.285 %) Fixed Income 9 4 (0.285 %) Wiki 10 3 (0.214 %) IPTV 10 3 (0.214 %) Market Risk 11 2 (0.143 %) Web 2.0	Operating Systems 1 717 (51.10 %) UNIX 2 524 (37.35 %) Solaris 3 480 (34.21 %) Linux 4 359 (25.59 %) Windows 5 232 (16.54 %) AIX 6 163 (11.62 %) HPUX 7 110 (7.840 %) Windows Server 2003 8 88 (6.272 %) Windows 2000 9 37 (2.637 %) Windows NT 10 33 (2.352 %) Windows XP 11 28 (1.996 %) SUSE 12 15 (1.069 %) Debian 12 15 (1.069 %) Tru64 13 14 (0.998 %) OpenVMS 13 14 (0.998 %) FreeBSD 14 9 (0.641 %) Mac OS X 15 8 (0.570 %) Fedora 16 7 (0.499 %) NetWare 17 4 (0.285 %) VMS 18 2 (0.143 %) IRIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 85 (6.058 %) Security Cleared 2 60 (4.277 %) Migration 3 58 (4.134 %) ITIL 4 52 (3.706 %) Disaster Recovery 5 51 (3.635 %) SC Cleared 6 33 (2.352 %) Load Balancing 7 30 (2.138 %) Security Management 8 29 (2.067 %) Change Management 9 27 (1.924 %) Project Management 10 26 (1.853 %) Performance Management 11 24 (1.711 %) Configuration Management 12 17 (1.212 %) DV Cleared 13 14 (0.998 %) User Acceptance Testing 14 13 (0.927 %) Problem Management 15 12 (0.855 %) Content Management 16 11 (0.784 %) Data Migration 17 10 (0.713 %) Service Management 18 9 (0.641 %) Logistics 18 9 (0.641 %) OO 19 8 (0.570 %) E-Commerce	Programming Languages 1 184 (13.11 %) Perl 2 158 (11.26 %) Shell Script 3 129 (9.195 %) SQL 4 79 (5.631 %) Java 5 75 (5.346 %) Korn 6 46 (3.279 %) PHP 7 30 (2.138 %) VB 8 20 (1.426 %) C 9 18 (1.283 %) VBScript 10 15 (1.069 %) PL/SQL 11 14 (0.998 %) Python 11 14 (0.998 %) AWK 12 9 (0.641 %) C# 13 8 (0.570 %) VBA 14 5 (0.356 %) VB6 15 4 (0.285 %) Ruby 15 4 (0.285 %) C++ 15 4 (0.285 %) JavaScript 16 3 (0.214 %) Transact-SQL 16 3 (0.214 %) PHP5
Qualifications 1 73 (5.203 %) Microsoft Certification 2 61 (4.348 %) MCSE 3 44 (3.136 %) Cisco Certification 4 34 (2.423 %) Degree 5 33 (2.352 %) CCNA 6 25 (1.782 %) RHCE 7 9 (0.641 %) MCP 8 6 (0.428 %) MCSA 8 6 (0.428 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 8 6 (0.428 %) Sun Certification 9 5 (0.356 %) RHCT 10 4 (0.285 %) CCNP 11 3 (0.214 %) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP) 11 3 (0.214 %) ITIL Certification 12 2 (0.143 %) CCSA 12 2 (0.143 %) SCSA 12 2 (0.143 %) CCSE 12 2 (0.143 %) A+ Certification 12 2 (0.143 %) HND 13 1 (0.071 %) MCDBA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 23 (1.639 %) SLA 2 4 (0.285 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 3 (0.214 %) QA 4 2 (0.143 %) GxP
System Software 1 186 (13.26 %) Active Directory 2 92 (6.557 %) NetBackup 3 46 (3.279 %) VMware ESX 4 42 (2.994 %) NFS 5 41 (2.922 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 6 34 (2.423 %) VMware Infrastructure 7 24 (1.711 %) Samba 8 21 (1.497 %) Squid 9 17 (1.212 %) Backup Exec 9 17 (1.212 %) ISA Server 10 13 (0.927 %) Terminal Services 11 6 (0.428 %) Citrix Presentation Server 12 5 (0.356 %) Oracle RAC 12 5 (0.356 %) Xen 13 4 (0.285 %) Terminal Server 14 3 (0.214 %) MetaFrame 14 3 (0.214 %) Oracle RMAN 15 2 (0.143 %) Nmap 15 2 (0.143 %) Novell eDirectory 16 1 (0.071 %) Microsoft Virtual Server	Systems Management 1 68 (4.847 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 67 (4.775 %) Tivoli 3 30 (2.138 %) OpenView 4 27 (1.924 %) HP Data Protector 5 18 (1.283 %) BMC PATROL 6 17 (1.212 %) Norton AntiVirus 7 16 (1.140 %) EMC NetWorker 8 15 (1.069 %) Legato 9 14 (0.998 %) WSUS 10 13 (0.927 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 11 12 (0.855 %) MOM 12 9 (0.641 %) Tivoli Monitoring 13 6 (0.428 %) AutoSys 13 6 (0.428 %) Veritas Storage Foundation 14 5 (0.356 %) Nagios 14 5 (0.356 %) Netcool 15 4 (0.285 %) Netcool/Proviso 15 4 (0.285 %) ARCserve 16 3 (0.214 %) CONTROL-M 16 3 (0.214 %) Tivoli Remote Control
Vendors 1 255 (18.18 %) Red Hat 2 219 (15.61 %) VERITAS 3 209 (14.90 %) Oracle 4 192 (13.68 %) Sun 5 136 (9.694 %) HP 6 125 (8.909 %) Microsoft 7 102 (7.270 %) VMware 8 94 (6.700 %) IBM 9 76 (5.417 %) Citrix 10 72 (5.132 %) EMC 11 65 (4.633 %) Cisco 12 27 (1.924 %) Symantec 12 27 (1.924 %) Remedy 12 27 (1.924 %) Agresso 13 23 (1.639 %) NetApp 14 22 (1.568 %) BMC 14 22 (1.568 %) Intel 15 20 (1.426 %) Lotus 16 19 (1.354 %) SAP 17 18 (1.283 %) Sybase